26th November 2009
The Extensible Firmware Interface or EFI is a specification, which defines the application interface between Mac OS X and the platform firmware. The Extensible Firmware Interface boot procedure includes a boot manager that is built-in platform firmware. B...
21st November 2009
In Mac OS X, the DVD RAM denotes to DVD format, where you can repeatedly erase and record data. Such disks could be used by all the DVD RAM drive installed on your Mac computer. You can use Mac OS X to record data to and erase data from the DVD drive. Thi...
13th November 2009
Linux file system is made up of several components and /etc/mtab and /etc/fstab are most important among them. For proper functioning of your file system and computer system, these data structures must be intact and in working state. Any damage to file sy...
11th November 2009
When you attempt to start you Microsoft Windows XP- based computer, the system might appear to hang (stop responding) with a black, empty screen immediately after the POST (Power-On Self Test) operation completes. The situation occurs just before the MS W...
10th November 2009
Microsoft Windows operating system contains a number of files, which work as the components of operating system. These files are specifically designed to perform a particular operation. Like NTLDR is responsible for loading the NT operating system. In cas...
05th November 2009
In Microsoft Windows computers, SIS (Single-Instance Storage) is an ability of your system to store a copy of the content, which multiple computers or users share. This is a method of eliminating the data duplication and increase efficiency. In some situa...
04th November 2009
In some situations, where you attempt to start your Microsoft Windows XP computer, it stops responding. Sometimes it gives you some STOP error messages or simply shows a black or blue screen that does not allow you to log into your system. This behavior o...
02nd November 2009
In Microsoft Windows, Disk Administrator is a useful tool that provides you a number of options to manage your hard drive. Using this feature, you can delete, shrink, format or merge hard drive partitions and assign drive letters. But in some cases, when ...
29th October 2009
Microsoft Windows operating system allows you to create dynamic partitions. The dynamic partitions have a number of advantages over basic partitions. A Windows hard drive that contains dynamic partitions is known as dynamic disk. These hard drives support...
29th October 2009
A significant bug in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard could affect you, if you have upgraded from Mac OS X Leopard to Mac OS X Snow Leopard with guest account enabled. This bug, although difficult to reproduce, could result into irretrievable loss of user accou...
27th October 2009
CHKDSK (CheckDisk) is a command-line utility in Microsoft Windows operating system, which ensures the file system integrity. It detects and fixes minor file system logical errors. The utility can also check hard drive for bad sectors and other physical er...
22nd October 2009
Microsoft Windows XP supports two hard drive file systems: FAT (File Allocation Table) and NTFS (New Technology File System). NTFS5 is the latest development by Microsoft in the series of file systems. It is more advanced than previous versions and provid...
21st October 2009
Leopard graphic updates are installed for achieving better stability and compatibility results for the system. But at times, installing these updates might cause several issues to the system. Your Leopard computer may start behaving slowly at boot time or...
20th October 2009
In Microsoft Windows operating system, you can expend or resize the hard drive partitions using third party utilities. These tools can be used on both Dynamic disks and Basic disks. Before you can run these utilities, you must list and then select object ...
16th October 2009
The kernel serves as the core of a computer operating system, including Mac OS X, located at a protected area of memory. It provides basic system services, such as memory management, file management, Input/Output management, process management and more. F...
